Truth Quotes

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

You never monkey with the truth.

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

We live in the Facebook era. I think everyone, not just celebrities, have an unprecedented level of self-awareness, of presenting yourself to the world. The truth is, it starts with how you look, and that goes into how you dress.

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can't be wrong.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don't have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.

You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.

Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.

People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth.

The object of the superior man is truth.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

I deliver my Truth hot and hard.

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

The whole idea of equal justice under law means that you've got to play by the rules. It has nothing to do with the underlying subject matter. You just tell the truth.

People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.